The international order has represented an issue of great interest for each evolutional stage of the configuration of humankind’s statal organization. Undoubtedly, the study of this syntagm has been approached in most of the cases from the point of view of the relations between states, regarded as participants with equal rights in the international life. This is the obvious aspect, in other words the tip of the iceberg, as there are also aspects that highlight the discrete side of the issue. One of these is represented by the analysis of the international order from the perspective of the geopolitical actors’ “game of power”, at different levels of territorial organization of the world. It is a reality, yet, difficult to except, the fact that the international order is above all a consequence of the power relations between the geopolitical actors and a rightful confirmation of the situation. Moreover, each historical stage has permanently faced the conflictual situation caused by the fierce competition between old and new international order. This is in fact the evident consequence of the fight for global hegemony between the great geopolitical actors of the world, each aiming to organize the world according to their own interests, thus establishing the rules of the “game of power” in the spatial plans of the structuring of humankind.
The geopolitics of the international order emphasises a multitude of aspects related to the organization of the world and, particularly, the spectrum of the relations between states, generated by power relations. The stage we are in right now is part of a process of transition, that has been maintained for over twelve years since the break-up of the old international order. The sole superpower of the world, the USA is concluding the coordinates of a new international order, yet, the problems are far from being solved. Any temporarization of the race leads to complications ever more entangled and novel, caused by the great powers, that endeavour to stop the process in their own favour. The stabilization of the situation is lagging behind owing also to the fact that the EU, that seems to become slowly and surely a second superpower of the world has not entirely finalized the whole set of issues concerning the internal integration. It is only this binome that will create the moment of forces necessary to ensure a stable and viable international order for a longer period of time. In the event that the tranzition lags behind, it is possible that a regionalization of the international order is obtained, in the sense that the USA will have to readopt the Monroe doctrine, the EU will dispute its supremacy over Europe with Russia and China, they will also dominate Asia, and Africa will become the object of the actions of all the great powers. At the same time, the “hot areas” in the Middle East, the South of Asia and Coreea will be maintained. On this configuration will be settled the actions of the secondary and tertiary geopolitical actors, complicating even more the situation and turning the international order into a “puzzle” without any possibility of ordering.